Hillary Turns to the Web Audience, Again

The big story last week was Barak Obama's and Hillary Clinton's budding Web campaigns, and how politicians are using the Web in new and interesting ways. There are definitely benefits to taking your campaign online--it's extremely inexpensive, reaches an active audience, lets followers participate and get involved, and plays to a young demographic and in every market on earth--but I figured posting some videos on YouTube and holding some heavily vetted webchats would probably be the end of it. Well, Hillary proved she's staying active online by posting a question on Yahoo! Answers:

"Based on your own family's experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America? "

The question is followed by a disclaimer from Yahoo saying they are not endorsing any candidates or political party, and the disclaimer is followed by 37,000 answers (as of this writing). Wow.

This is a good trend...next up, I wanna see campaign photos on Flickr, be able to make a donation via PayPal or Google Checkout, and maybe track the campaign trail on Google Earth. (those are some hastily cooked-up ideas...post better ones in the comments section!)

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